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The court was told that at around 3am on April 2, 2018, the baby began crying and Jones allegedly told police she tried to breastfeed the child because she was too tired to go downstairs to get a bottle of formula.

Her husband Vincent McGovern later told police the baby was crying again around 6am and Jones asked him to prepare a bottle of formula.

After he left for work, she fed the baby and fell back asleep. She woke up again around 7.30am to find the child in distress with bloody mucous coming from its mouth.

Jones and her own mother who lived in the house decided the baby should be rushed to the hospital, but he was pronounced dead about an hour later.

At the time, the court papers said the baby had died after ingesting a "combination of fatal drugs through breast milk".

Her lawyer Louis Busico had previously said Jones "absolutely, unequivocally loved that child" and never intended to harm him.

At the time of her arrest, an affidavit claimed Jones had told investigators she had been prescribed methadone since pregnancy to help manage her addiction to opioid painkillers, but there is no mention of other drugs.

The bottled milk was found to be clear of any drug traces.

Since her arrest, Mr Busico said, his client had been "completely in a state of depression”.